Nafe (Kwamera)

v paint (especially one’s face during ceremonial events)

Speaker: Martial wahe

v. wear an ornament of leaves inserted into carved or woven armlets

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

v sit on, sit astride (as on a horse)

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v 1. feed (as a child or animal); fill (as a hole)

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v deflect an object (as a football), cast off, shake off one’s body, abandon one’s supporters (as a leader)

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v intr smack lips (as to call a dog)

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v drip, leak

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v intr 1. go, walk, be in motion; 2. be unmarried; 3. shine (as the sun)

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v avoid, draw back, shrink from

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v strike down, kill at a blow

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v knead, mx by hand, grope

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v waste, expend, use up

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v intr intersect, cross, lie across

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v intr var. of akwɨpahar

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v turn aside, turn back (as a person), block

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v intr abut, join with, stand on

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v intr clear (as the sky), break up (as clouds) dawn

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v tr 1. beg, ask for, plead for; 2. ask for a child to adopt

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v see -ata

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v. look up! (imperative)

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v. to braid rope or hair, or wrap with coconut leaves

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vatu (currency unit)

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morning star

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Fiji

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n. (collection: Michael J. Balick #5107)

Example: For Asthma, take one handful of shaved stem with 1/2 L water. Boil in a pot 5-10 minutes, a drink 1 warm cup two times a day for one week.

Scientific name: Chamaesyce, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5159)

Example: To attract fish in the sea. Take the branches and mix with mashed coconut endosperm, put (throw) in sea and then use line and hook to catch reef fish there.

Scientific name: Phyllanthus, Speaker: Johnson Noar

boy children

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n. kind of coconut with large ’eyes’

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phrase where you going?

(Bislama) you go wea

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n. traditional broom

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kind of shellfish

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Brown Fantail

Example: Photo by flyingkiwigirl / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Rhipidura drownei, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n name of a culture hero

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n kind of bird (collared fantail)

Scientific name: Rhipidura fulginosa, Speaker: Martial Wahe

middle vent in Iasur crater

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pig jawbone for ceremonial use

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Sclater’s Myzomela, Scarlet-bibbed Myzomela

Scientific name: Myzomela sclateri, Speaker: Martial Wahe

bat (flying fox)

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5099)

Example: Fruits edible and sold in market to earn money.

Scientific name: Dracontomelon vitiense, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Speckled blue grouper, speckled grouper (deep sea)

Example: Photo by John Turnbull / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Epinephelus cyanopodus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[kwanjere] n. tree, 12-13 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3089)

Example: The nut inside of the fruit contains sap. Cut a fruit in half and stick it to a person’s arm, and then take it off, put earth on the place where the sap is, and it makes a temporary tatoo that lasts for 3-4 days. This fruit is the best flying fox food, and when the tree has ripe fruits many flying foxes go there to feed, and hunters know this. The fruits are eaten by people as well.

Scientific name: Burckella obovata, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. canarium nut fruit (variant 2)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Tristram’s Storm Petrel

Example: Photo by Tony Morris, License: CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Oceanodroma tristrami, Speaker: Martial Wahe

coconut stage, 6th (sixth); has a small sprout

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baby

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club, with star shaped head

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[kwanokuma] n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2976)

Example: No use disclosed.

Scientific name: Melastoma malabathricum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Blue sea chub, snubnose chub, topsail drummer

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Kyphosus cinerascens via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n month name (archaic) corresponding to August

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plant seed pods, produce a bright red substance the can be used to color hair red [plant to be identified]

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n. seed of nƗsuvás

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n. red pepper, hot pepper

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. type of manioc with a yellowish flesh (i.e., curry)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Dusky parrotfish, swarthy parrotfish

Example: Photo by J. E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Scarus niger via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Globehead parrotfish

Example: Photo by J. E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Scarus globiceps via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

listening

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kind of cassava, has yellow flesh—the name means “yellow curry”

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar

worm

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kind of fish

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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5044)

Example: Collect the branches, scrape into a dish, and mix with water to make soap for washing clothes. One can also bathe with it. Also associated is the legend of a rat who, swimming in the sea, gets hungry and goes to this vine to eat. Preparing for a delicious meal, he defecates when he sees this vine. He climbs up to get the fruits on top of the vine, but has been tricked-- they are below! Once he realizes, the branch he is on breaks and he falls into his own feces. He feels bad, as he is both hungry and dirty.

Scientific name: Rhamnella vitiensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n cliff

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kind of plantain from Fiji

Example: Used for cooking

Scientific name: Musa spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

n moon crater

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Yellowlip emperor

Example: Photo by Anthony Pearson / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus xanthochilus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

[nami̤rou] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3074)

Example: The wood is used to make house posts, it is said to be very hard. It is also burned for firewood.

Scientific name: Glochidion, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

older brother

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names

(Bislama) nem blo hem

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n. kind of yam (high prestige)

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n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5111)

Example: Use leaf to line earth oven on top of stones to protect lap lap from burning. If you’re building a bush house in the forest, children can sleep on these leaves in a temporary house.

Scientific name: Microsorum grossum, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5081)

Scientific name: Cyperus, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5081)

Scientific name: Cyperus, Speaker: Johnson Noar

n. shrub, 4-6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3090)

Example: This plant is known as "fishbone leaf" as the edge of the leaf tears away and the remaining part is serrated. It is a powerful medicine that is secret.

Scientific name: Leea indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. forest with big trees, growing closely together

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n. traditional medicine

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Mountain beetwen yatukwei and High hill

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n. well branched tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3149)

Example: When young boys are circumcized, the leaf is mashed and rubbed on the skin of the boys who are sleeping in the nakamal--and mix with coconut oil to help hold it on the body. Said to help the person have better, smoother skin.

Scientific name: Murraya, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. shrub, 2.5-3 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Evodia hortensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. 1. kind of tree (from which combs are carved), 2. comb

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2975)

Example: Animal Feed: The whole plant is fed to pigs to keep them fat and healthy. It is referred to as “pig medecine” and is given once per week.

Scientific name: Cyrtandra obovata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5083)

Example: Wood is hard, making it good for canoe making. Also used to make the stick that holds outrigger to canoe (Nikiavet).

Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

n. inalienable friut stem (as of an orange, mango, pumpkin, etc.)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. kind of laplap made from bananas and coconut

Example: see more on Youtube

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n. kind of thick grass

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n my eyebrows

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n. kind of banyan tree, bark used for tapa cloth

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n. kind of tree with scented bark, can be used for timber

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n. axe

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Caper White

Example: Photo by givernykate / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Belenois java peristhene via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Two-striped sweetlips, giant sweetlips

Example: Photo by Ross D. Robertson / Shorefishes of the Neotropics, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Plectorhinchus albovittatus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

cousin (older mother’s sister’s child, older father’s brother’s child)

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n. father (my)

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car

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strong

Example: something strong like rock; hood or something had to break it.

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n sea urchin

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Tanna Fruit Dove

Example: Photo by Doug Janson / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name: Ptilinopus tannensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

roots of pandanus

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Vanuatu Petrel

Scientific name: Pterodroma occulta, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Giant mottled eel

Scientific name: Anguilla marmorata via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

window in traditional house (Bislama)

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port resolution

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